What were the best albums of the year? As time goes by, it only gets harder and harder to answer that question. With an audience of listeners with shorter attention spans and a seemingly infinite amount of music released to compete for that attention, finding a favorite album that you can truly sink your teeth […]
We at FTI have been busy covering a few summer conventions/festivals, but that won’t stop us from getting our Weekly Bullet Reviews out! As always, some ground rules: Tommy Genesis – “Loops” Justin: Hard hitting, rage boiling, and introspective. Canadian rapper Tommy Genesis spits a contemplative spoken word reviewing the generational, religious, and identity repression […]
Is it too early to declare these next few months boylife summer? Ryan Yoo, the musician behind the boylife project, has been in the LA scene for a while. There was the dreamy R&B-pop dripping project Common Souls, which we fell in love with a few years back. Then there was mmmonika, the upbeat indie-pop […]
Did you think that we would still be at this point, one year later? For us here at From the Intercom, we certainly didn’t think so. The continued feelings that we kept bottled up inside all year – the angst, the uncontrollable need to dance, the urge to feel something – are mutual feelings that […]
In many ways, 2021 felt like quite a tame year compared to the one that preceded it. The shock and the cultural anxieties of life during a pandemic became commonplace. There wasn’t another world changing virus permeating the world (though different variants are still making their rounds). Hope felt imminent. Things were looking up. But […]